Helicopter crash crew 'lucky to be alive'

A PSNI air crew who escaped major injury when their helicopter flipped upside down on landing are lucky to be alive, a senior officer said tonight.

All four men were able to walk from the wreckage of the overturned Eurocopter Squirrel after it turned over this morning close to the site of last weekend’s fatal helicopter crash high up in the Mountains of Mourne in the North.